Fooling Us Into War

Over at Consortium News, via lewrockwell.com, Robert Parry looks at how we're fooled into supporting attacks on other countries. He suggests the same is going on now with Russia:

"Today, we are seeing an even more dangerous repetition of this pattern: demonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin, destabilizing the Russian economy and pressing for “regime change” in Moscow. Amid the latest propaganda orgy against Putin, virtually no one in the mainstream is exercising any restraint or finding any cautionary lessons from the Iraqi and Libyan examples."

We live in dangerous times, especially so since presidential candidates in this most militarily aggressive country in the world feel they need to add handouts to the military and show they're "not going to be messed with by anyone" to their campaigns.

I put that last one in quotes because it's a paraphrase of what a neighbor told me during a presidential campaign of some years ago. He said something along the line of "I want someone so tough that nobody will even think of messing with us". Probably a fairly common sentiment among Americans, never considering that also increases the chance and opportunity to attack other countries or, more likely, they don't care.